Cuspidor-cleaner.



PATENTED JULY 24, 1906. L. HALVORSON & I. JOHNSON.

GUSPIDOR CLEANER. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 7, 1905.

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UNITED STATES LARS HALVORSON,

Parana. OFFICE.

OF VVILLMAN, AND IVER JOHNSON, OF OHOKIE,

'MINNESOTA; SAID HALVORSON ASSIGNOR TO JAMES J MOOAN- NEY, OF STEVENSCOUNTY, MINNESOTA.

CUSPIDOR-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LARs HALvonsoN, residing at Willman, in the countyof Kandiyohi, and IVER JOHNSON, residing at Ohokie, in the county ofStevens, State of Minnesota, citizens of the United States, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ouspidor-Oleaners; andwe do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled. in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention has for its object to provide an efficient device forcleaning cuspidors and various other vessels; and it consists of thenovel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, anddefined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout both views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing the complete device. Fig.2 is a detail view showing a portion of the device on a larger scale.than shown in Fig. 1, some parts being broken away.

The numeral 1 indicates a bearing-bracket having bearing-sleeves 2 and 3extending at right angels to each other and provided at its upper 'endwith a handpiece 4. The upper end of a shaft 5 is journaled in thebearing 2, and the inner end of a crank-shaft 6 is journaled in thebearing 3. A beveled gear 7 is secured to the inner end of thecrank-shaft 6 and meshes with a beveled pinion 8 on the extreme upperend of the shaft 5. The shaft 5 at its lower end is bent outward at 9.Immediately below the bearing 2 the shaft 5 is provided with alaterally-projecting lug 10 and just above its bent portion 9 isprovided with a similar lug 11. A supplemental shaft 12 is looselyjournaled in'the projecting lugs 10 and 11 and at its lower end isprovided with a portion 13, bent at an angle thereto. At. its upper endabove the lug 10 the shaft 12 is bent outward at 14, and to this bentportion is pivoted a ring 15, that is adapted to be turned downward overthe end of said lug 10 to lock said shaft 12 with its bent end 13projecting in'the same plane with but in an o posite direction from thebent end 9 of the s aft 5. Mo sections 16 and 17 are loosely attached tot e bent ends 9 and 13, respecinner surface thereof at a hig tively, ofthe shafts -5 and 12. These mops 16 and 1-7 are preferably formed'byloosely connected and interwoven wire rings.

To enable the mops and the bent ends of the shafts 5 and 12 to beinserted into a cuspidor or other vessel through the contracted neckportion thereof, the shaft 12 is turned as shown in Fig. 2, and afterthe mops have been inserted the said shaft 12 is turned back into theposition shown in Fig. 1 and is locked in such position by the ring 15.The device is then operated by taking hold of the handpiece 4 with onehand and revolving the crankshaft 6 with the other hand, therebyrevolving the main shaft 5 and the supplemental shaft 12 as a singleshaft or stem and causing the mops 16 and 17 to be thrown outward underthe action of centrifugal force. The mops are thus thrown against thesides of the vessel and are caused to ass over the speed, and thusthoroughly clean the vessel.

In actual practice we have found this device to be extremely efficientfor the purposes had in view.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a rotaryshaft and means for rotating the same, said shaft having alaterally-extended lower end and having a mop loosely attached to saidlaterallyextended end, and a crank-like arm pivoted on and carried bysaid rotary shaft and hav ing a mop loosely attached to the projectinglower end thereof, substantially as described.

2. The combination with abearing-bracket having tively mounted in saidbracket, a supplemental shaft journaled in the bearings carried by themain shaft, said two shafts having laterally-bent ends, mops applied tothe bent ends of said two shafts, and means for locking saidsupplemental shaft with its bent end turned away from the bent end ofsaid main shaft, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a bearing-bracket having a handpiece, of a shaft5 rotatively mounted in'said bracket and provided with a laterally-bentend 9 and with bearing-lugs 10 and 11, a supplemental shaft 12 mountedin said lugs 10 and 11, and having the latera handpiece, of a main shaftrotaally-bent end 13, means for locking the upper end of saidsupplemental shaft to said lug 10, metallic mops 16 and 17 attached tothe end portions 9 and 13 respectively, of said shaft 5 and 12, a crankjournaled in said bearing-bracket, of gears connecting said crank to theupper end of said shaft 5, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

LABS HALVORSON. IVER JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. OTTERNEss, GEORGE MULLER.

